New Castle County Staff Picks - March 2024

Updated February 27, 2024
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Everything I learned, I learned in a Chinese restaurant : a memoir
Chin, Curtis
Ebook
This "vivid, moving, funny, and heartfelt" memoir tells the story of Curtis Chin's time growing up as a gay Chinese American kid in 1980's Detroit (Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers). Nineteen eighties Detroit was a volatile place to live, but above the fray stood a safe haven:...
The road from Belhaven
Livesey, Margot
Audiobook
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Flight of Gemma Hardy, a novel about a young woman whose gift of second sight complicates her coming of age in late-nineteenth-century Scotland "Bewitching and seductive." --Rebecca Makkai, author of I Have Some...
A love song for Ricki Wilde
Williams, Tia
Ebook
In this sexy modern-day fairytale from the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June, a free-spirited florist and an enigmatic musician share a soul mate connection told through the history, art, and the magic of Harlem. A New York...
The warm hands of ghosts : a novel
Arden, Katherine
Ebook
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that suggest otherwise, in this hauntingly beautiful historical novel with a speculative twist, from the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.
While you were out : an intimate family portrait of mental illness in an era of silence
Kissinger, Meg
Ebook
From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg...
Learning to love midlife : 12 reasons why life gets better with age
Conley, Chip
Ebook
New York Times bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy inspires readers to embrace midlife as a time of joy in this "clear blueprint for creating the lives we want" (Gretchen Rubin) Named A WSJ Best Book on Aging and Retirement in 2024...
Splinters : Another Kind of Love Story
Jamison, Leslie.
Audiobook
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes "a blazing, unputdownable memoir" (Mary Karr, author of Lit), the "piercing, intimate" story (TIME Magazine) of rebuilding a life after...

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